Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:
There’s no way I was born to just pay bills and die.
~unknown

The goal is to die with memories not dreams.
~unknown

I’ll look back on this and smile because it was life and I decided to live it
~unknown

EndQuote:
Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
~Jack Kerouac

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Too many good quotes on traveling and travelers to toss out for want of space in this week’s Post & Review. For a tour of quotes worth a visit:  https://wordgrove.com/TravelQuotes.html

Note:  This editor apologizes for extolling the pleasures of travel in this week’s edition, when no one can because of COVID-19. The topic was chosen to celebrate his return home after a wondrous six months in Colombia. The ambivalence embodied in celebrating my continued stay here, and missing my friends at home, and the confusing paradox it represents, cannot be overstated. Ain’t life a kick.

 

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Exercise Prompt for 03/29:  begin

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Posted from the Grove

Things To Do While Sequestered:
Coloring books: Get out your colored pencils for these fun/instructive/elegant projects (requires a printer)
http://library.nyam.org/colorourcollections/?utm_source

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~Washington Post’s Crossword Puzzles  (Daily, Sunday, etc.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/crossword-puzzles/

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~USA TODAY’s Free Online Games & Puzzles
https://puzzles.usatoday.com/

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12 World-Class Museums to Explore Online
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/75809/12-world-class-museums-you-can-visit-online

 

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Video Sketches:  Travelers  ̶  It’s about time

One Minute Time Machine   (5:40)    fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBkBS4O3yvY

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Room 88   (8:44)    fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tLNEeraSfc

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Time travel is possible. Will explain later.
~Jose Canseco

Time travel is only a little less confusing than wives.
~Ranvir Shorey

 

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A Little Travelin’ Music, Please:

~Jack Broadbent:  On The Road Again   (4:39)

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~Becca Krueger:  Hit the Road Jack   (4:39)

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~Rod Steward:  Sailing   (4:56)

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~Andrea Bocelli, with Sarah Brightman:  Time to Say Goodbye   (6:38)

 

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Wyoming
© Greg Thweatt

 

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@Writers Platform

Exercise Prompt:  travel

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~BarTalk:
Hapless Goes Mapless

Wondering at the wandering shoreline
Guessing at the history it skirts
Set out in the morning at sunrise
Intending to find everything first

A fair good try for the borderless horizon
Navigating for landfall to make it by sunset
Early adventures of a vagabond traveler
Me and my inner tube USS Tess

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Tanka: 5-7-5-7-7 x 3

audacious bandit
travels in the time of plague
just heroes wear masks
bold outlaw is a virus
loathsome bug purloining breath
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the world spreads full wide
geography’s the study
the taste of it tempts
travel proves the gestalt, yet
ain’t ’til now I been nowhere
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beginning to end
three score ten for the journey
time travel is real
vagabond, or a tourist
eyes and ears, mouth with a map

 

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All of life is a foreign country.
~Jack Kerouac

This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.
~Paulo Coelho

The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.
~Jack Kerouac

Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?
~Caroline Myss

 

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